It’s really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like “Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don’t know what it’s doing here” and the ones from Europe are like “If you don’t give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you”
Why would they speak spanish in europe
Spain…….
I love how tumblr is full of people who aren’t afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.
This piece was inspired by an anonymous message I received: “ The history of Joan of Arc’s life has a lot of trans themes that many people overlook—dressing and presenting as a man was very important to Joan, not just in order to lead the French military but also in Joan’s personal life. It ultimately led to Joan’s execution because Joan couldn’t agree to not wear men’s clothes in exchange for only a life sentence in prison. I think Joan of Arc’s story of bravery is really inspiring, and I think it’s amazing that there is a (possibly) trans saint, so that could be an idea for you to consider for your artwork 💕 ”
Thank you for the support and love, I love receiving messages like this from people who have personal/emotional connections with classical and religious art figures. I grew up Jewish so I don’t have much experience researching saints, I would have never known the complexity of Joan of Arc’s gender identity had I not received this message!
This is a fucking disgrace, you can’t trans dead people!
What is wrong with you? Like literally any woman who wears men’s clothes are men to you?
You are a fucking idiot.
There was no complexity of Joan’s “gender identity” because the concept of “gender identity” didn’t exist back then and she never once claimed to be anything but a woman.
This is so ignorant and stupid.
Alright! I looked further into it and my suspicions were correct, as they always seem to be!
“The history of Joan of Arc’s life has a lot of trans themes that many people overlook—dressing and presenting as a man was very important to Joan, not just in order to lead the French military but also in Joan’s personal life.”
Where is the source for Joan wearing men’s clothes in her personal life? Because I haven’t seen that anywhere. Are you assuming because, because she grew up a peasant farmer, that she didn’t wear the gowns of noble women that she wore men’s clothes? Like, where are you getting this from? History.com, Wikipedia, Biography.com, and the Ancient History Encyclopedia don’t mention it.
She pretended to be a man in the beginning so she could safely visit the king she was hoping to put back on the French throne. She claimed she had been having visions from Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine from ages 13 to 19, with the Saints proclaiming her savior of France and encouraging her to restore a French monarch to the throne (the future King Charles VII), as France was ruled by the English at the time.
She told his soldiers that she needed to see the king because “the Lord willed it” and that she’d rather stay home and spin with her mother. Spinning being a predominately female occupation.
She dressed as a man and cut her hair short to go see Charles. Do you know why? Because the armed escort of male soldiers told her to so she wouldn’t be attacked as they rode through Burgundian territory, who were pro-English and hostile to those loyal to the French crown. She didn’t tell Charles she was a man. Nobody besides the Burgundians they rode by thought she was a man.
She donned male armor to lead the troops given to her by Charles at the Battle of Orleans because they didn’t make armor for women. Not in the 13th century. And, according to sources, she wore a dress/”women’s clothes” when she wasn’t fighting, though she kept her hair short for practical reasons. She was captured by the English and their Burgundian supporters in 1430. They tried her for heresy.
“It ultimately led to Joan’s execution because Joan couldn’t agree to not wear men’s clothes in exchange for only a life sentence in prison.”
While in a military prison guarded by men, she reportedly kept men’s clothes on to protect herself from being raped by the guards, as the armor was difficult to remove. She was interrogated at least 12 times, and they threatened to torture and rape her. But she wouldn’t break.
She was later given a dress, but her dress was soon taken by the guards, and she had nothing else to wear but men’s clothes.
In May 1431, she burned at the stake, with an estimated 70 charges against her, including witchcraft, heresy, and cross-dressing.
“I think Joan of Arc’s story of bravery is really inspiring, and I think it’s amazing that there is a (possibly) trans saint”
This was a 19 year old peasant woman who convinced the future King of France to let her lead an army of trained and armed men against the invading English forces. This is a woman from humble origins who faced threats of torture and rape with courage. Who refused to break. Who believed in her cause.
She is brave, and her story is inspiring. But she isn’t “trans”, and how dare you insult her like that. She showed the valor and resilience in the face of war, violence, and patriarchy unique to women.
Where are the “trans themes” in her story? You have no valor or resilience, no courage or bravery. You can’t even look the cashier at McDonalds in the eye. Joan of Arc turned the tide of the Hundred Years War, restored a French king to the throne, all at age 19. And what have you done? Invented a “gender identity” from the sheltered comfort of your parents basement.
Joan of Arc is a heroine, and a role model to women and girls everywhere. Fuck you for trying to make her a man.
This is one of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever seen made of a historical figure. As a butch woman seeing people jump to the conclusion that all historical women who were masculine for whatever reason must have been trans is incredibly rude and it shows that you don’t believe that a woman can be masculine and still be a woman. Joan of Arc was a hero of her time and you trying to make up an identity that she can not consent to is horrible.
TRAs be like “woman who doesn’t conform to / defies the roles society imposed on her = man” and “woman who has short hair and doesn’t dress in restricting clothing = man” and “woman who isn’t 100% submissive to men = man” and then think they’re progressive
Also not to mention that this is artistically cutting off a teenage girl’s breasts because she didn’t conform to the typical female role at the time.
Just had to explain how the harm of sexual contact with people you don’t desire gets erased by sex work rhetoric to someone who unironically hit me back with “but sex doesn’t have to be about desire though” 💀
No yeah I’ve had people seriously tell me I “don’t have to be attracted to someone to want to have sex” like what do they think makes someone wanna have sex????
Genuinely terrifying. What do these people think is the measure of rape?
Also, having sex for other reasons (this person listed money, advantages, boredom, etc) ignores the personal cost of suppressing yourself, your feelings, your reactions, any sign of your genuine experience. If you’re not having sex to enjoy a moment of deep intimacy with someone you desire, then you’re just tolerating it.
Last night on this website I was reading a prostituted woman who worked in a brothel talk about how she mentally had to count to 100 and pretend to be somewhere else to get through some of the clients she had to take, and then insist she’d only been raped twice by clients. Nowadays if a woman talks about having to mentally dissociate to do things with her boyfriend that she doesn’t want to do, a lot of people will tell her she’s having a trauma response and being raped. But when it’s a prostituted woman mentally dissociating, that’s ok and that’s not rape because sometimes retail employees wish they were somewhere else too.
Exactly. All prostitution does is create a group of people, predominantly women, whom it’s acceptable to abuse. Everyone has consent workshops at unis & shares infographs on social media & talks about the FRIES model until its time to talk about prostitution and suddenly everyone pretends there’s a demographic that’s magically immune to the harms of sexual abuse
One thing I’m extremely uncomfortable with is all the forced teaming after the Colorado Springs shooting. It’s a lot worse than it was before. Now trans activists are accusing gender critical gay people of somehow indirectly causing homophobic violence. And honestly, that’s an extreme projection on their part.
Modern trans rights activism is closely aligned with queer theory. Queer theory is a homophobic academic philosophy that claims homosexuality is deviant. Queer theorists want to challenge the taboos against deviance. They put homosexuality in the same deviant category as paraphilia, beastiality, incest, and pedophilia.
This academic philosophy was forced onto gay rights organizations and non-profits that relied on support from universities. Then the word “queer” was pushed as an umbrella term for everyone queer theory categorized as deviant. So the fight for gay rights was bulldozed by the fight for “queer” rights. Gay organizations and non-profits were gentrified by straight “queer” activists. They introduced taboo-challenging events like all-ages drag shows. These events did not exist prior to the queer theory takeover of gay institutions.
These very loud, showy, taboo-challenging events circulated among right-wing reactionary groups online. And the reactionaries began reacting in real life. Getting violent and taking their violence out on gay people.
The queer theory project is coming full circle. It’s reaching its final stage. A homophobic collaboration between the left and the right.
Soon the straight people will grow out of their “queer” phase. They’ll drop the pronouns, wash out the hair dye, and leave us to suffer the violence they incited.
They want to force us and guilt us into validating them now. But they’ll drop us like hot garbage when the violence becomes too inconvenient for them.
